Making Sense of the Swirling World of Business Analytics
Our benchmark research on business analytics suggests that it is counterproductive to take a general approach. A better approach is to focus on particular use cases and lines of business (LOB). For...
View ArticleSalesforce Dreamforce Keynote: Social is Changing Industry Power Structures
With more than 90,000 attendees registered and 100,000 more expected to watch via live stream on Facebook, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce is the biggest technology event of this year. The conference...
View ArticleShifts in Retail Demand New Analytics
Our benchmark research into retail analytics says that only 34 percent of retail companies are satisfied with the process they currently use to create analytics. That’s a 10 percent lower satisfaction...
View ArticleParAccel Takes a Smart Path to Faster Analytics from Big Data
ParAccel is a well-funded big data startup, with $64 million invested in the firm so far. Only a few companies can top this level of startup funding, and most of them are service-based rather than...
View ArticleRoambi Means Mobile Business in the Cloud
Roambi, a supplier of mobile analytics and visualization software, announced the release of a cloud-based version of its product, which allows the company to move beyond the on-premises approach where...
View ArticlePivotLink Makes Attribution Modeling More Approachable
PivotLink is a cloud-based provider of business intelligence and analytics that serves primarily retail companies. Its flagship product is Customer PerformanceMETRIX, which I covered in detail last...
View ArticleCloud-Based Analytics Requires Hybrid Data Access and Integration
As I discussed in the state of data and analytics in the cloud recently, usability is a top evaluation criterion for organizations in selecting cloud-based analytics software. Data access of cloud and...
View ArticleBig Data and Analytics has a New Spark
The concept and implementation of what is called big data are no longer new, and many organizations, especially larger ones, view it as a way to manage and understand the flood of data they receive....
View ArticleSplunk Takes on Internet of Things and Bolsters Enterprise Security
Splunk’s annual gathering, this year called .conf 2015, in late September hosted almost 4,000 Splunk customers, partners and employees. It is one of the fastest-growing user conferences in the...
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